When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
ROLAND BARTHES
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
